ABOUT//

Kotoka Suzuki / 鈴木琴香 is a composer focusing on both multimedia and instrumental practices. She has produced several large-scale multimedia works, including spatial interactive audio-visual work for both concert and installation settings, often in collaboration with artists and scholars from other disciplines. Her work engages deeply in the visual, conceiving of sound as a physical form to be manipulated through the sculptural practice of composition. Her work often reflects on life, breath and wind.

She received a B.M. degree in composition from Indiana University and a D.M.A. degree in composition at Stanford University, where she studied with Jonathan Harvey. Additional professional training include IRCAM Composition Summer Workshop (France), June in Buffalo (NY), Domaine Forget (Canada) with York Höller, and Voix Nouvelles Academy at Fondation Royaumont (France) with Brian Ferneyhough and Franco Donatoni. She taught at the University of Chicago and is currently an Assistant Professor of Music at Arizona State University Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts. Her work is published on Edition RZ, Albany Records, EMF Media, IMEB records and Signpost Music. She is an associate composer at the Canadian Music Centre since 2001.